JOHN WILKES BOOZE - The Heliocentric Views of John Wilkes Booze
"St. Ives is proud to present The Heliocentric Views of John Wilkes Booze, the second album by Bloomington, Indianas John Wilkes Booze. Fettered by the struggle between nature and industry, these eight songs carry the flailing and flourish of hot sticks. All told, this is a battle of pure light vs. the powers that be. And yes, JWB is here to carry on the tales of resistance and hope with vocal chant, saxophone blurt and Farfisa. These songs are ruminants on the ritual flounders of our, forced upon us, wannabe John Wayne. The Heliocentric Views tacks each soliloquy against JWBs wrangled misses and scores of electric guitar rhythm and echo, hand drum symphonies and electronic gashes. This album marks the first time JWB has been back in the studio since completion of their 2003 debut Five Pillars of Soul (Kill Rock Stars). The blasted rock of that opus is melted away here with a deep freedom of form, though the contorted groove structure remains. The Heliocentric Views features members of the Boozes orbit of helping hands: violist Dorey Fox (Mt. Gigantic, Crotch Council), lays down the a isolation-honed pulse of drone across the title piece and the vocal symmetry of Sophia Travis (Vulgar Boatmen) and Gretchen Holtz (The Smears, Lola) backs the plea for intergalactic reality on Weve Got Room In Outer Space." The Heliocentric Views of John Wilkes Booze is a 300 edition LP. The album covers were hand painted, drawn and spayed by the band members. Cover design by vocalist Seth Mahern." - St. Ives.
After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
